February 25, 2023
QUOTE
It’s being here now that’s important. There’s no past and there’s no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can’t relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don’t know if there is one.
--George Harrison
BIRTHDAYS
1475 – Edward Plantagenet, The last male member of the House of York
1873 – Enrico Caruso, Italian-American tenor and the first great recording star
1913 – Jim Backus, Actor and screenwriter. Mr. Howell and the voice of Mr. Magoo
1943 – George Harrison, Lead guitarist of The Beatles
IN MEMORY
957 – Bugs Moran, Mob boss
1967 Walter “Fats” Pichon Jazz pianist, singer, and bandleader
1983 – Tennessee Williams, Playwright, and poet
2006 – Darren McGavin, American actor
IN ON THIS DAY
1336 – Four thousand defenders of Pilenai commit mass suicide rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights.
1836 – Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for his revolver.
1933 – Launch of the USS Ranger, the first purpose-built aircraft carrier of the US Navy.
1991 – Disbandment of the Warsaw Pact